Report by Dave Tweed on matches of January 23rd
Early tee times were allocated by Pestana to us today, so it was a joy to turn up at Silves shortly after 7.45am to see 24 men (and a few of their wife's), arrived and ready to play golf on what was a cold, but sunny morning. So, the ideal number for a matchplay competition, with six 4balls playing the MMMsome game (preferred drive, pairs betterball matchplay).
Peter Chapman continued his winning streak, with four wins out of four, as did Steve Edwards - but Steve has only played 3. However, still early days, as the maximum is 14 points and there are still 18 to play for. All yesterday's scores are below:-
Steve Edwards & Ken Shelton beat Charles Bradshaw & Stuart Monks 3 & 2
Russell Lloyd & Stuart Walker beat Chris Nickels & Stu McGill 1up
Gerry Davis & Bernard O'Reilly beat Keiran O'Brian & David Taylor 3 & 2
Warren Tennant & Peter Chapman beat Don Forrester & Larry Pratt 3 & 2
Dave Tweed & Frans Bus beat Pete (Marieke's Dad) & Wim Hofmann 3 & 1
Pete Steward & Richard Emrich halved with Peter Vaughan & Stuart Deans
Full league table is available on request, but "leading lights" so far are listed below. Just noticed that a special mention must go to
Larry for his "hat-trick achievement" yesterday (three losses in a row!):-
NAME PLAYED POINTS HOLES WON
PETER CHAPMAN 4 8 9
STEVE EDWARDS 3 6 11
DAVE TWEED 4 6 8
FRANS BUS 3 4 7
BERNARD O'REILLY 3 4 6
STUART DEANS 3 4 3
STUART WALKER 3 4 3
CHRIS NICKELS 3 3 4
RUSSELL LLOYD 2 3 1
ADVANCE WARNING - Silves is closed for much of next week for the European Seniors Qualifying Competitions, so the Matchplay Men are at Alto with spaces for just 12 players. Contact Dave Tweed as soon as possible if you want to be included, as at the time of writing there are only 2 spaces left.